Comments on: You Read What About Me on the Internet?!: Anonymous Online Libel http://www.thelegality.com/2009/02/26/you-read-what-about-me-on-the-internet-anonymous-online-libel/ An Online Law Journal Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:41:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Debbie Scott http://www.thelegality.com/2009/02/26/you-read-what-about-me-on-the-internet-anonymous-online-libel/comment-page-1/#comment-2177 Debbie Scott Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:00:39 +0000 http://www.thelegality.com/archives/125#comment-2177 I discovered a website Rate Your Professor where I received 40 evaluations, mostly negative. I teach in a small university, in a small town, where many of the students are conservative. My liberal, feminist, pro-abortion views have not helped my evaluations, even though I consider myself a lite feminist, only bringing topics up when a text or a writing assignment chose by a student makes it applicable. For example if a student is pro capital punishment, I engender them to look up statistics. In addition, the one valid predictor of teacher evaluations is students' grades. My sense is that many students may believe that if one comes to class and tries, that should earn them a C if not better. To come to class, work hard, and then receive an F is uncomprehensible to them. I have a number of those F's each semester, in addition to the F's from not working hard or attending class. Over the years, the quality of students' work has deteriorated, I have tried a number of experimental teaching methods, such as elaborate portfolios for research papers in which the student does a number of exercises which leads to a finished research paper. My sense is that many students do not want to participate in class. They become angry when called upon. They seem to want to daydream, text message, and come right before the essay/test for personal help in my office. If they have a number of unexcused absences I refuse to help. This is translated on evaluations as "is not helpful." I was also given this job under false pretenses. I was hired as a creative writer and creative writing was rarely offered to the point it is now defunct. Lately I seem to spend most of my time preparing for upper classes not in my field since the professor who teaches these classes has been on sick leave for many semesters. Though I have tenure, I have decided to refuse to teach upper level classes, not challenge students' logic, never analyze the gender politics of a text, and to soften my grading expectations. I think the remarks that I lose papers were the most hurtful of all. I don't lose papers. When I return a set of papers, the students who have cut class do not receive their papers back. If they forget to ask for the paper for many weeks, the papers do get temporarily lost in the shuffle. When I first began teaching two decades ago, the wife of a professor at a prestigious university told me to her husband puts "not responsible for lost papers whether it is your fault or mine" to protect yourself legally. I have done that for years and now students are zeroing in on that as evidence that I lose papers. I discovered a website Rate Your Professor where I received 40 evaluations, mostly negative. I teach in a small university, in a small town, where many of the students are conservative. My liberal, feminist, pro-abortion views have not helped my evaluations, even though I consider myself a lite feminist, only bringing topics up when a text or a writing assignment chose by a student makes it applicable. For example if a student is pro capital punishment, I engender them to look up statistics. In addition, the one valid predictor of teacher evaluations is students’ grades. My sense is that many students may believe that if one comes to class and tries, that should earn them a C if not better. To come to class, work hard, and then receive an F is uncomprehensible to them. I have a number of those F’s each semester, in addition to the F’s from not working hard or attending class. Over the years, the quality of students’ work has deteriorated, I have tried a number of experimental teaching methods, such as elaborate portfolios for research papers in which the student does a number of exercises which leads to a finished research paper. My sense is that many students do not want to participate in class. They become angry when called upon. They seem to want to daydream, text message, and come right before the essay/test for personal help in my office. If they have a number of unexcused absences I refuse to help. This is translated on evaluations as “is not helpful.” I was also given this job under false pretenses. I was hired as a creative writer and creative writing was rarely offered to the point it is now defunct. Lately I seem to spend most of my time preparing for upper classes not in my field since the professor who teaches these classes has been on sick leave for many semesters. Though I have tenure, I have decided to refuse to teach upper level classes, not challenge students’ logic, never analyze the gender politics of a text, and to soften my grading expectations. I think the remarks that I lose papers were the most hurtful of all. I don’t lose papers. When I return a set of papers, the students who have cut class do not receive their papers back. If they forget to ask for the paper for many weeks, the papers do get temporarily lost in the shuffle. When I first began teaching two decades ago, the wife of a professor at a prestigious university told me to her husband puts “not responsible for lost papers whether it is your fault or mine” to protect yourself legally. I have done that for years and now students are zeroing in on that as evidence that I lose papers.

]]> By: freeviewgirls.info http://www.thelegality.com/2009/02/26/you-read-what-about-me-on-the-internet-anonymous-online-libel/comment-page-1/#comment-2159 freeviewgirls.info Fri, 29 May 2009 17:55:48 +0000 http://www.thelegality.com/archives/125#comment-2159 i whole agree it can damage careers, reputations, and a person’s sense of security, but tat is how the internet is made up. People sign up to facebook and the whole world had access to their information. Its time the population smartened up. i whole agree it can damage careers, reputations, and a person’s sense of security, but tat is how the internet is made up. People sign up to facebook and the whole world had access to their information. Its time the population smartened up.

]]> By: Michael Roberts - Internet Libel Survivor http://www.thelegality.com/2009/02/26/you-read-what-about-me-on-the-internet-anonymous-online-libel/comment-page-1/#comment-1817 Michael Roberts - Internet Libel Survivor Sat, 28 Feb 2009 06:48:57 +0000 http://www.thelegality.com/archives/125#comment-1817 Tracy, may I reproduce your article as a resource on our website? <a href="http://www.rexxfield.com" rel="nofollow">www.rexxfield.com</a> Tracy, may I reproduce your article as a resource on our website?

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